NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FUTURE ELITE TO JOIN ELITE BASEBALL TRAINING

CHICAGO, IL – Elite Baseball Training announced today that the nationally recognized Future Elite 14U and 15U travel baseball programs will join Elite Baseball Training beginning in July of 2012. The combination of these premiere programs will provide exciting opportunities for the top amateur players in the region, including challenging, position focused training in a structured year-round training program, national-level competition and unmatched exposure to recruiters and scouts.

Justin Stone, president of Elite, stated, “I’m thrilled to join with the Future Elite. We potentially will have 25 of the top 30 players in the state in next year’s program, which immediately will make us a national brand. With this combination, we want to become a ‘one stop shop’ for any national university recruiting in the state of Illinois.”
Rich Ruffolo, co-founder of The Future Elite, added, “You will be hard pressed to find a more committed, baseball-educated group of individuals from top to bottom, working together towards one common goal – success for our athletes.” Mike Ferri, co-founder of The Future Elite, further commented, “Great athletes, great coaches, and great exposure can only lead to great things.”
Elite Baseball Training will be holding invitation only tryouts for national travel teams for its 2013 teams from 12U to 16U in July. For more information on these tryouts and Elite go to www.elitebaseballtraining.com.
About The Future Elite and Elite Baseball Training
The Future Elite, co-founded by Rich Ruffolo and Mike Ferri, as well as coached by former White Sox major leaguer Mark Dalesandro, were ranked #1 in the state of Illinois* and #11 in the nation* at the 14U level in 2011. The current 14U and 15U teams feature some of the top players in the state of Illinois in their respective classes. Nick Dalesandro and Joe Uvelli are rated in the top three of the 2015 class** while Drake Fellows, Michael Ruffolo and Sam Ferri were all members of the Great Lakes Region USA Baseball NTIS Team. The Future Elite plays a national schedule that features tournaments such as the 15U USA Baseball National Championships East and the Perfect Game World Wooden Bat Championships.
Elite Baseball Training, led by Justin Stone, provides professional instruction and exposure opportunities as well as a personalized player development program. Elite instructors include former Indiana State University coach and professional video analyst Justin Stone, former White Sox major leaguer, Rob Mackowiak, and Houston Astros Scout, Dan Puente. Elite also trains and manages the Elite Baseball 15U Travel Team which features 7 of the top 20 players in the state of Illinois** as well as national caliber players from the states of West Virginia and Arizona. This team plays a national schedule that features the Perfect Game 15U BCS Championships as well as the 15U USA Baseball National Championships West.
*Rankings by Travelballselect.com
**Rankings by Prep Baseball Report, Illinois

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